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began to sing : « A king dethroned and fugitive , 

 who , exiled from his antique domains , has been 

 enabled to create another sort" of royalty , has been 

 enabled to replace by other clients his ciients ex- 

 terminated. Chaos isappeased;the éléments emerging 

 from confusion , become docile by harmony ; the li- 

 mit of propriety and inheritance , marked only 

 in the heavens , will be drawn on the earth ; 

 the human faculties enter into the heirship of 

 uni versai, empire. The old Titan , who has no 

 more to wage a terrible war against the now van- 

 quished forces of nature , may again equal the he- 

 roes af an âge which begins. Neither do the La- 

 pitha3 surpass him, nor the Gentaurs, nor the Tel- 

 chines , nor the Cyclops , nor the bold navigators 

 who embarked with him in the ship Argo. Glory 

 îo the falher of Euridice , of her who was the 

 true smile of heavenly goodness ! Magnanimous virœ 

 of Latium , in vain you would be alarmed ; Eu- 

 rydice is the pledge of a new virtue , which will 

 develop itself successively ; this new virtue is 

 equity opposed to force. Isonomy , an other name 

 for equity , will gradually penetrate inlo the bo- 

 som of every city , whether its founder be 

 Vola , Oppidum or Asti. As soon as the war of 

 éléments subsided , the facnlties war of human 

 faculties was to commence. » 



After this coup d'œil of inspiration thrown on 

 fulurity , Thamyris resumed his history in thèse 

 words : « It would have been difficult to find a 

 more accomplished beauty than Eurydice , when 



